The United States, a signatory to the Chemical Weapons Convention, destroyed the last of its stocks of VX and other chemical agents… — Barton Gellman Copy Share Image
First developed as a weapon by the U.S. Army, VX is an oily, odorless and tasteless liquid that kills on contact with… — Barton Gellman Copy Share Image
In the wealthy industrialized nations, effective drug therapies against AIDS became available - AZT as early as 1987, then combinations of antiretroviral… — Barton Gellman Copy Share Image
In late 2003, the Bush administration reversed a long-standing policy requiring agents to destroy their files on innocent American citizens, companies and… — Barton Gellman Copy Share Image
On average, since 9/11, the FBI reckons that just over 100,000 terrorism leads each year have come over the transom. Analysts and… — Barton Gellman Copy Share Image
On March 12, 2004, acting attorney general James B. Comey and the Justice Department's top leadership reached the brink of resignation over electronic surveillance… — Barton Gellman Copy Share
For political and bureaucratic reasons, governments at all levels are telling far less to the public than to insiders about how to prepare for… — Barton Gellman Copy Share
Searches of al Qaeda sites in Afghanistan, undertaken since American-backed forces took control there, are not known to have turned up a significant cache… — Barton Gellman Copy Share
I don't think Cheney started off in 2000 with a burning desire to become vice-president. I think the prospect gradually became more appealing, and… — Barton Gellman Copy Share
I doubt there's any government in the world that guides itself primarily by strategy or conceptual documents or worldview. Anybody who has the reins… — Barton Gellman Copy Share
U.S. intelligence services routinely use collection methods against foreigners that foreseeably - with certainty - ingest high volumes of U.S. communications as well. — Barton Gellman Copy Share
Snowden is an orderly thinker, with an engineer's approach to problem-solving. — Barton Gellman Copy Share
Experts said public companies worry about the loss of customer confidence and the legal liability to shareholders or security vendors when they report flaws. — Barton Gellman Copy Share
The United States, a signatory to the Chemical Weapons Convention, destroyed the last of its stocks of VX and other chemical agents on the… — Barton Gellman Copy Share
As Trotsky didn't exactly say, you may not be interested in electronic snoops, but snoops are interested in you, whether or not you keep… — Barton Gellman Copy Share
You don't need to be a spook to care about encryption. If you travel with your computer or keep it in a place where… — Barton Gellman Copy Share
I learned the technology and tradecraft of electronic security in self defense, with a lot of expert help. — Barton Gellman Copy Share
Early in 1986, the World Health Organization in Geneva still regarded AIDS as an ailment of the promiscuous few. — Barton Gellman Copy Share
